[Remind-Fans] Fun optimization & thanks
Tim Chase
remind at tim.thechases.com
Sat Nov 18 07:16:01 EST 2023
So for the month of November, I wanted to send a note each day to
someone for whom I'm thankful, and thus cobbled together a quick
calendar lke
# thankful.rem
REM Nov 1 2023 MSG "Annie"
REM Nov 2 2023 MSG "Steve"
#...
REM Nov 30 2023 MSG "Emily"
However, this was a real pain to modify. If I wanted to move
someone to another date, I had to renumber the dates or edit all
the intervening names. And it was 30 different date-tests.
Instead I switched to an expression
REM Nov 2023 MSG [choose($Td \
,"Annie" \
,"Steve" \
# ...
,"Emily" \
)]
it's (1) much less redundant, (2) a lot faster with only one date
test, and (3) a lot easier to move people around on the list.
This could also work well for an advent-calendar in December if one
was interested.
And all that to also say that today I'm thankful that you created
(and continue to maintain & enhance) remind(1)!
-tim
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